Edward Hulme

[1] Born in Hythe, Kent, in England on 18 May 1812, Hulme was the son of a captain in the Royal Staff Corps.

By 1839, he had received his degree in medicine from the University of St. Andrews and was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

[1] Hulme emigrated to New Zealand in 1856 with expectation of leaving medicine and becoming part of the landed gentry.

[1] With the onset of the Otago gold rush in 1861, thousands of miners flooded into the region, overwhelming the local health care system.

[1] His house, Hulmes Court, completed in the early 1860s, still stands as a private home to this day, opposite Otago Girls High School in central Dunedin, New Zealand.